Coin-controlled machine.



J. H. EGAN & J. H. PRIERSON.

COIN CONTROLLED MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1914,

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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THE NORRIS PETERS c0 PHQTO-LITHQ. WASHING ION. By C J. H. EGAN & J. H. FRIERSON.

COIN CONTROLLED MACHINE.

APPLICATION TILED MAY 28, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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THE NORRIS PETERS C0., PHOTO LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D. C.

TTTQD JAMES H. EGAN AND JOHN H. FRIERSON, 0F CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

COIN-CONTROLLED MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9,1915.

Application filed May 28, 1914. Serial No. 841,517.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES H. EGAN and JOHN H. F RIERSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Charleston, in the county of Charleston and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Controlled Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to slot machines or coin controlled apparatus, and comprises particularly a machine adapted and in tended for the sale or delivery of checks which can be exchanged for merchandise or soda, the checks being delivered by coin operated devices.

The machine is of that class in which the coin is dropped into a carrier and forms a connection between a push bar and the carrier, to move the latter, which in turn operates a slide for the delivery of the article desired.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus, one side plate being removed. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail of the delivery slide. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the machine. Fig. 6 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 7 is a section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a section on the line 8--8 of Fig. 3.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 10 indicates a box like casing, the lower part of which is provided with a delivery chute 11 in front, leading to a finger cup 12, and acash drawer 13 at the back. The upper part of the box contains the operating devices, and is illustrated as being made in duplicate, that is, with two sets of similar devices, one of which is suitable for a coin of one size, say a dime, and the other for coin of another size, say a nickel. A description of one mechanism will answer for both.

The upper part of the box or casing is divided by a partition 1 1 immediately behind which is a magazine 15 at each side, which contains the checks or articles to be delivered, the delivery from each being effected by means of a slide 16 which when advanced under the magazine will convey a check or disk forwardly from the bottom of the magazine and drop the same into the delivery chute 11. This slide is advanced by means of a lever 18 fulcrumed at 19 and connected to an arm 20 projecting from the slide 16. When the upper end of the lever is pushed back, the slide is advanced. A spring 21 returns the same.

The coin slot is at the top of the boX, with a guide 22 to facilitate placing the coin in the slot, and the slot leads to a coin carrier 23 which slides back and forth on a plate 24-. The upper end of the lever 18 bears against the back wall of the coin carrier, and when the coin carrier is pushed back, the lever is oscillated. The coin carrier has an opening 2 1 through which will work a push rod 25 operated by a finger lever 26 at the front of the machine. When no coinis in the carrier the rod works idly through the opening 21, and the carrier is not advanced. The inner end of the rod 25 is hollow, and incloses a plunger 27 the rear end of which is normally pressed out beyond the end of the rod 25 by means of a coil spring 28. This plunger has a pin 29 projecting laterally through a slot 30in the push rod 25, and this pin is connected to a pawl or detent 31 which is pivoted at 32 to the under side of the rod 25. When, a coin is insertedin the carrier and the lever 26 is pushed in the plunger 27 first strikes the coin, and in consequence of the pressure the plunger is pushed back in the rod, the spring 28 being compressed. This action swings the pawl 31 on its pivot 32, and lifts the head of the pawl into position to strike a pin 33 projecting from a lever 34 which is fulcrumed at 35 on a guide bracket 36 fixed to the adjacent frame or plate 37, and the lower end of this lever 3 1 bears against the front wall of the carrier 23, as indicated at 38 in Fig. 8, the lever having a finger shaped projection which bears against the carrier at one side of the hole 24. The parts being brought to the position described, the pin 29 stops against the end of the slot 30, and the pawl 31 being in contact with the pin 33, further movement of the push rod 25 by the lever 26 causes the lever 34: to swing on its pivot 35, and its projecting end or finger 38 presses against the coin carrier and assists in advancing the same. This advance, .or movement toward the back of the machine, operates the lever 18 as above described, and carries the coin carrier to a position above the slot 10 which leads to the coin chute 41. When the lever 26 is released the first movement is to withdraw the push rod 25, which is retracted by a compression spring ll located between the plate 37 and an arm 42 on the push rod. This movement releases the coin which drops through the slot 41, but the lever 34: is detained until. the rod 25 is retracted far enough to permit the pawl 31 to slip off of the pin 33. By that time, the coin has dropped from the carrier, and the parts are then returned to original position by the spring 21. The action is therefore to allow the push rod to release the coin in the carrier, and to delay the return of the carrier until the coin has had time to drop through the slot. This prevents the coin from being caught between the carrier and the slot 40. The chute 41 leads to an exposure chute formed on the side of the casing, having an opening 51 through which the coin can be seen, the coin being stopped behind said opening by means of a finger 52 pivoted at 53 on the partition 14 and held in position to stop the coin by a spring 54. Attached to each lever 18 is an arm 55 extending forwardly and provided with a beveled end 56, and when the lower end of the lever 18 is advanced, this beveled end strikes the inner end of the lever 52 and lifts the same so that the coin which was temporarily detained by said lever will drop into the chute whence it passes behind the guide 61 and through an opening 62 into the cash box. The chutes from the different inlet slots are symmetrically arranged to both deliver into the same cash box.

We claim 1. In a coin controlled machine, the combination of a movable carrier, a push rod adapted to advance the same, a yielding plunger carried by the push rod and adapted to connect with a coin in the carrier, a detent carried by the push rod and operatively connected to the plunger, and means operated by the detent to delay the return movement of the coin carrier when the push-rod is released.

- adapted to delay the return of the coin carrier until the detent releases from said projection.

In testimony whereof, we afiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES H. EGAN. JOHN H. FRIERSON. Witnesses:

H. W. HOPKE, H. J. BOLLMANN.

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Washington, I). G. 

